**Source:** Leninist Collection XXIX
**Page:** 74

From Meyer: from "The
Africa
Boers"
The Workers'
Movement
(has become
bourgeoisified)
in Canada
42 men
... 1/3 of all
wealth

**THE WORKERS' MOVEMENT IN CANADA ("has become bourgeoisified")**

... "The qualified section of the working class, especially the English-speaking portion, has become completely bourgeoisified. Its view of trade union matters still wholly coincides with the outlook of the old, narrow English trade-unions. Moreover, in spiritual matters they remain entirely under the power of the church. To be considered a 'renegade' is the greatest shame, 'respectability' is the highest honor." This is changing: a spirit of discontent... high cost of living. "42 men now actually hold in their hands more than one third of all the wealth of the country." ... The petty bourgeoisie, especially in agriculture, stands against the trusts. (*Neue Zeit* 1913–4, 32, 1, p. 382, summary of an article by Gustav "Agrarian Discontent in Canada," *New Review*, 49–45, September).

Same source, p. 584, on South Africa (the "Rand"*). Workers from among the Chinese and whites (ruined by the Boer War). Countless abominations on the part of English capitalists, mine owners and the government. Class struggle among all the imported workers is gradually developing, but slowly "to a considerable degree because of the indecisiveness and narrowness of the workers' leaders, still wholly under the power of the old trade-unionism" (from *The International Socialist Review*, 1913, October, summary).

**THE WORKERS' MOVEMENT IN CANADA**

South
Africa
"workers'
leaders"—narrow,
heartless old
trade-unionists

*Name of the gold-bearing district in the Transvaal. Editor's note.

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**BAGARIY. "GESCHICHTE DER KOMMUNE 1891"**

Lissagaray: "Gesch[ichte] d[er] Kom[mune]".
1894, S. 193 (Motto z[um] 17. Kap[itel]): "Wenn
die fr[an]z[osi]sche Nation nur aus Frauen be-
NB
stände, was wäre das für eine schreckliche Na­
tion". Daily News, May 1871.

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